Monthly Archives: May 2016

(CNBC) Beset by market volatility, crowded into similar strategies and in many cases bogged down by huge piles of investment capital, hedge funds are struggling this year, paving the way for poor results….. To read this article:

(Harvest) More risk equals more return. Less risk equals less return. These are the commandments of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), taught to first-year business students all around the country. To read this article:

(Valuewalk) Leading hedge fund performance is an energy related strategy, somewhat of a theme. As market environments have changed, so too has the performance skew of various hedge fund strategies. When it was once the overwhelming leader among hedge fund […]

(Reuters) Gávea Investimentos Ltda, the hedge fund run by former Brazilian central bank President Arminio Fraga, posted higher returns in April after scrapping bets against domestic assets on optimism that a possible change of government could jump-start Latin America’s largest […]

(Bloomberg) The world’s richest hedge fund managers, grappling with the industry’s worst start to the year since 2009, are feeling the pinch. The eight hedge fund billionaires who rank among the world’s 400 richest people have seen their fortunes drop […]

(Bloomberg) Former BlueCrest Capital Management money manager Brad Visokey joined hedge fund Global Credit Advisers this week. Visokey will lead the firm’s expansion in investment-grade credit, according to a person familiar with the matter. GCA, which was founded in 2008 […]

(Reuters) Against a backdrop of slower economic growth, prominent hedge fund managers, including Larry Robbins, Stanley Druckenmiller and David Einhorn, said it will take longer for stocks to rise and laid out best ideas that markets barely reacted to. The […]

(Daily Alts) The month’s Central Bank meetings are now behind us, as is the bulk of the Q1 reporting season. Investors continue to act like they want to rotate into higher risk as foreign worries decline along with the U.S. […]

(Reuters) AIG has been scaling back investments in hedge funds, which have borne the brunt of excessive market volatility in the past year.Big-name hedge funds favored by pension funds and the ultra-wealthy for their track record of stellar returns took […]

(The Business Insider) Hedge funds firms are changing their bets as they seek to recover from a rocky start to the year. They’re betting that markets will stabilize and be less volatile, but are doing so by betting on volatility […]

(New York Post) February was very chilly for Steve Cohen. Cohen, perhaps the world’s best stock investor, saw his $11 billion Point72 family office fund fall 8 percent during the month. Cohen is not used to being in the red. […]